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[h=1]Absentee ballot: Ted Cruz a no-show at most committee meetings, floor votes[/h] Published April 23, 2015Fox News Latino

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  Republican Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the Homeschool Iowa's Capitol Day, Thursday, April 9, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
  

On one side of the spectrum in the Senate there is Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has not missed a vote since taking office in 1997. At the opposite end are Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida.
The two Republican presidential candidates' attendance records when it comes to Senate votes and attending hearings are some of lowest in the chamber, with Cruz being especially negligent as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Cruz has missed the majority of committee hearings and now ranks 97th in the first three months of this year in showing up for roll call votes on the floor.

According to a report from Politico late last month, Cruz missed out on discussions about Afghanistan, the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, spending cuts, military readiness and the appropriate level of compensation for the troops.
Cruz was also the only senator absent on Wednesday when the Senate voted 99-0 to pass a compromise human trafficking bill that ended a contentious fight over federal abortion funding restrictions that had stalled the confirmation vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch.
Cruz's campaign spokesman, Rick Tyler, told Fox News Latino that the senator missed the vote because he arrived in Washington, D.C., late in the evening on Wednesday.
The Texas senator is expected to be in Dallas Thursday for a fund-raiser hosted by investor Tom Hicks.
Cruz himself seems to embrace the fact that he is snubbing his colleagues and committee members, telling a crowd in Houston that he is "guilty as charged"

when asked if he wouldn't get along with his fellow senators.
His absenteeism might be one reason why Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the current head of the Armed Services Committee, has attacked Cruz this week about comments that he is "pressing" the committee to have hearings on why the military has a policy of not allowing soldiers to carry their firearms onto bases.
"I hope the new chairman, John McCain, will agree to have those hearings because I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to have their Second Amendment rights," Cruz said, according to a transcript provided to Fox News Latino by his office.
McCain fired back that he had not heard from Cruz on this and joked that the Texas lawmaker sent his message "through some medium that I'm not familiar with."
"There's a lot of holes in the ozone layer, so maybe it wasn't the ozone layer that he bounced it off of," McCain said, according to the Hill

. "Maybe it was through hand telegraph, maybe sign language. Who knows?"
In regards to Cruz's attendance record, his staff said his attendance is not an accurate account of his participation in defense and foreign policy issues before the panel.
"Sen. Cruz is deeply engaged in defense and national security issues," said his communications director, Amanda Carpenter to Politico

. "He never hesitates to defend American sovereignty and has established a remarkable track record leading on these matters."
She added that he has introduced legislation "to stop Americans who join ISIS from returning to the United States to wage jihad, impose sanctions on Iran to safeguard America and our ally Israel, and grant combat status for the troops who were sent overseas to fight Ebola."
In February, an analysis carried out by Vocativ in partnership with GovTrack.us, showed that Rubio beats Cruz as the senator most absent from chambers, having missed 99, or 8.3 percent, of 1,198 total votes since taking office in January 2011 to February of this year.
"He is one of the only senators with young children who has not moved his family to D.C., and tries to spend as much time in Florida with them as possible," Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told Politico

. "In addition to his parental responsibilities, in recent years he's also had to return to Florida and miss votes due to his mother's health and civic responsibilities like jury duty."

 

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[h=1]Ted Cruz: 'My Vote on Loretta Lynch is Unambiguously No'[/h]Whoops:

[h=1]Why Did Ted Cruz Miss the Loretta Lynch Vote?[/h] [h=2]He voted against cloture but was the lone senator not to vote on final passage.[/h] By Sarah Mimms

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April 23, 2015 Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday gave an impassioned speech encouraging his colleagues to vote against Loretta Lynch for attorney general, calling her "unsuitable" for confirmation. A few hours later, when the Senate took a final vote to confirm her, Cruz was the lone senator who didn't show up.

Where was he? Possibly en route to Texas to raise cash, though his office won't say.
Cruz staffers took to Twitter Thursday afternoon as reporters began asking questions about his whereabouts and attempted to change the subject. Cruz was there for the earlier Lynch vote, a move to invoke cloture, which would then allow the Senate to take a final vote to either confirm or deny Lynch her new job at the Justice Department.
Cruz spokeswoman Amanda Carpenter, in a tweet, called the cloture vote "the only one that mattered," arguing that if the Senate could get 60 votes for cloture, they could get enough votes to secure Lynch's confirmation on final passage.



There's one problem with that argument. Sixty-six senators voted for cloture—including 10 Republicans who ultimately voted against Lynch's final confirmation. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, who has been an outspoken opponent of Lynch's nomination for months even as fellow leaders Mitch McConnell and John Thune wouldn't say how they'd vote, was among the members who voted for cloture and then opposed final passage. Thune did the same.


On a normal vote, 60 votes would be needed. But this is an executive branch nomination, and since Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option two years ago and Republicans have decided not to change the rules back (at least as of yet), Lynch needed only 51 yeas on both votes. Any less—on either vote—would have sent the administration back to the drawing board.
Lynch has had 51 public commitments since Republican Sen. Mark Kirk announced in February that he would support her. In other words, by that logic, Cruz's nay vote was essentially meaningless both times.


As reporters have continued to question his team about Cruz's absence—the senator himself disappeared from the Capitol this afternoon after the cloture vote and after dodging reporters' questions about the drone strike that killed a U.S. hostage—his staffers have offered increasingly novel responses.



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Two communications staffers in Cruz's Senate office did not respond to a National Journal request for comment about the whereabouts of their boss during the final Lynch vote. But intrepid reporter Jamie Dupree of Cox Radio found an invitation on Cruz's presidential campaign site for a fundraiser in Dallas, Texas, tonight at 6 p.m.




Cruz's team has not responded to questions about the fundraiser.
Cruz was also the lone senator to skip Wednesday's vote on the human-trafficking bill, which passed 99-0.

 

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MORE QUESTIONS surface about Hillary Clinton's relationship with the Clinton Foundation while she served as secretary of state as records show 22 of the 37 corporations nominated for a prestigious State Department award — and six of the eight ultimate winners — also became foundation donors, with Silicon Valley giant Cisco kicking in between $1 million and $5 million in 2009, then winning the award in 2010.

 

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[h=1]Catastrophe: Half Million Souls Displaced By Obama’s War Of Choice In Libya[/h] [h=3]Posted by Andrew Marcus on Thursday, April 23, 2015, 9:51 AM[/h]



Red Crescent has announced that there are approximately half a million displaced people in Libya. (h/t Rantburg)

The Libyan Red Crescent has reported that well over half a million Libyans are now displaced because of ongoing fighting and instability within the country. It put the figure at 557,212 individuals, representing 103,821 families. [Read More...]
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This is all Obama’s fault. Libya was a war of choice. They had no WMD. There was no ISIS or al Qaeda there before the Obama led NATO invasion. Yet Obama toppled Gaddafi with no apparent plan for the aftermath. And now it’s a giant man made catastrophe.
Obama flashback – 2011:

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought on Saturday to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories.
Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address that Gaddafi’s death and the announcement that all U.S. troops would be removed from Iraq this year were “powerful reminders of how we’ve renewed American leadership in the world.”
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Nice job.

 

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[h=1]FEC head under fire for women’s forum ‘stacked’ with Dems[/h]

By Judson Berger
Published April 30, 2015FoxNews.com


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Shown at right is FEC Chairwoman Ann Ravel. (AP/FEC)


The chairwoman of the supposedly nonpartisan Federal Election Commission is under fire for planning a forum next month on women in politics "stacked" with Democrat-leaning speakers and apparent Hillary Clinton supporters.
One conservative lawyer already is calling for an inspector general investigation; another group is urging Chairwoman Ann Ravel to call off the event.
To Ravel's detractors, the forum is yet another example of the allegedly partisan turn being taken by the FEC under her leadership.
"There are so many things wrong with this," Cleta Mitchell, a prominent conservative lawyer in Washington, D.C., told FoxNews.com.

 

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What's the difference between looters and Democrats? When looters rip you off, they don't usually pretend to be apostles of virtue

 

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FEC head under fire for women’s forum ‘stacked’ with Dems



By Judson Berger
Published April 30, 2015FoxNews.com


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Shown at right is FEC Chairwoman Ann Ravel. (AP/FEC)


The chairwoman of the supposedly nonpartisan Federal Election Commission is under fire for planning a forum next month on women in politics "stacked" with Democrat-leaning speakers and apparent Hillary Clinton supporters.
One conservative lawyer already is calling for an inspector general investigation; another group is urging Chairwoman Ann Ravel to call off the event.
To Ravel's detractors, the forum is yet another example of the allegedly partisan turn being taken by the FEC under her leadership.
"There are so many things wrong with this," Cleta Mitchell, a prominent conservative lawyer in Washington, D.C., told FoxNews.com.

Obama has corrupted government top to bottom, almost to the point of being unsalvageable.

 

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[ Is this liberal pig the most disgusting human being on the planet or what? ]


[h=1]MICHAEL MOORE: ‘DISARM POLICE,’ RELEASE AFRICAN-AMERICANS IMPRISONED FOR ‘NONVIOLENT OFFENSES’[/h]

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[h=2]On April 30, Micheal Moore tweeted his “demand” that police be disarmed and “every African-American currently incarcerated for…nonviolent offenses [be] released from prison today.”[/h]Moore did this through a series of three tweets, in which he lamented what he sees as America’s mistreatment of black citizens.
In the first tweet, sent at 3:16 a.m., Moore wrote: “Imprison u, shoot u, sever your spine, crush your larynx, send u to war, keep u poor, call u a thug, not let u vote. But u can sing for us.”
In the second tweet, sent at 4:03 a.m, he wrote, “Here’s my demand: I want every African-American currently incarcerated for drug ‘crimes’ or nonviolent offenses released from prison today.”
In the final tweet, sent at 5:05 a.m, Moore added, “Next demand: Disarm the police. We have a 1/4 billion 2nd amendment guns in our homes 4 protection. We’ll survive til the right cops r hired.”
Moore’s tweets come after days of rioting in Baltimore ubiquitously in response to the April 19 death of Freddy Gray. Gray was arrested by police on April 12 and died with a spinal injury on April 19.
On April 22 The Atlantic reported that no evidence of police brutality against Gray had been presented. And on April 29 The Washington Post reported that another prisoner who was riding in the police van in which Gray was placed claims to have heard Gray “trying to injure himself” in transport by banging himself against the sides of the van.

 

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[h=1]Politics: WaPo: 52% of Democrats have no problem with a socialist presidential candidate[/h]

Image Credit: Mr. Big Time Socialist [h=3]Published by: Robert Laurie on Friday May 1st, 2015[/h]

...But many of them have no idea what socialism is.
Obviously, there's a pretty thick vein of socialists thriving within the Democrat Party. Whether you're talking about an honest, open, and committed socialist like Bernie Sanders, or the innumerable secretive "soft-socialists" that make up the top levels of the DNC, it's clear that they have a substantial hold on left-wing power.
Unfortunately for them, if the quiet ones actually admitted their beliefs, they wouldn't have a particularly strong hold on the electorate. As the WaPo reports:

Among Democrats, capitalism and socialism were viewed similarly, with 52 percent of those responding giving a thumbs up. (Slightly more Democrats viewed socialism very favorably, but not to a point of statistical significance.)
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If you're thinking "that's a disturbingly high number," you're right. It is. Of course, if this data is correct, it also means that a candidate like Bernie Sanders is doomed right out of the gate. Even if their dislike for Hillary Clinton led Democrats - even those who view socialism unfavorably - to hold their noses and vote for him in the primaries, he'd still never be able to pull the kinds of numbers needed to be anything more than a footnote in the general.
Of course, once people start pointing out the fallacies of his ideology, some of that 52% base could crumble. That's because, as the WaPo also notes, many of these devout socialism supporters have no idea what socialism actually is.

That's assuming people knew what socialism was. Asked to define the term, one-fifth said it referred to government control of the economy. A quarter said they didn't know. Other research suggests that younger people are both less hostile to the concept and less likely to know what it is, having lived through less of the Cold War.
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Great. So 52% would probably vote for it, but a good percentage of them have no idea what, exactly, they'd be voting for. Communism? Socialism? Whatever. It's all the same to Dems as long as you're screaming about higher taxes:

So when Bernie Sanders, avowed socialist, announces his presidential bid on Thursday, he will not have a large pool of Socialists from which to draw support. But he will also probably not have to deal with any ads linking him to Cuba. If in 1990 "they" understood that Sanders' form of socialism wasn't the same as Castro's communism, now, Democrats in particular don't really care.
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Regardless, there's a rude awakening in store for liberals who were hoping this would be the year their long-hidden socialist instincts finally went mainstream. Much of their own party, virtually all Republicans, and the vast majority of independents want no part of it. So their candidates will have to keep playing the game where they hide their real agendas behind a capitalist cloak.
Which is something that a a guy like Sanders isn't interested in doing. As the WaPo's WonkBlog puts it:

The real question for him is not about the strength of his support among committed liberals, but whether he can persuade moderate Democrats outside of Vermont to vote for him and his radical agenda.
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The answer is: "Probably not, but maybe." However, should he pull off a miracle and make it through the primaries, it also means he's doomed to a presidential run largely free of independent and moderate support.
A vocal socialist won't be able to walk back decades of rhetoric, and he won't be able to play to the national middle. Whatever support he gets from his radical left-wing base is all the support he'll be able to muster.

 

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Politics: WaPo: 52% of Democrats have no problem with a socialist presidential candidate

...But many of them have no idea what socialism is.

That about sums up the avg. low-information voter - like Poker Fraud David Vtard who didn't even know Saul Alinsky until Russ schooled him.

 

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[ Both of these crooks should be behind bars for the rest of their lives ]

[h=1]LOYALTY REWARDS? Clinton donors on African ‘safari’ with Bill, Chelsea[/h]

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• FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTONand daughter Chelsea left earlier this week on a nine-day tour through Africa with a plane full of family foundation donors and Hillary Clinton supporters in tow, adding jet fuel to accusations that contributors are getting rewarded — and courted for even more money.

 

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[ Another complete, utter failure for the inept shit-stain in the white house ]

[h=1]CBS News/New York Times Poll: Race Relations Worst In Over 2 Decades[/h]Poll Follows Unrest Following Death Of Freddie Gray In BaltimoreMay 4, 2015 7:04 PM

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A new poll released Monday indicated that Americans believe race relations are at their worst in more than two decades.
The CBS News/New York Times poll said 61 percent of Americans characterize race relations in the U.S. as “bad,” including a majority of white and black respondents. The figure is the highest since 1992.
A total of 79 percent of African-Americans believe police are more likely to use deadly force against a black person than against a white person, while 53 percent of whites believe race does not play a role, the survey said.
Black respondents were also more likely than white respondents to believe their local police make them feel anxious rather than safe, the poll said.
The latest poll came in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore – an incident that has sparked heated unrest. Similar negativity about race relations was last seen at the time of the Los Angeles riots following the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King, the poll said.
This was also the first time since 1997 that majorities of both white and black Americans believe race relations in the U.S. are poor, the poll said. Opinions among white Americans have grown sharply more negative in the poll even compared with earlier this year – with 62 percent of whites saying race relations are bad compared with just 35 percent in February.
Black respondents have historically had a more negative view than white respondents about race relations, but the level of pessimism is now similar, according to the poll.
Also, fewer than one in five white Americans think race relations are getting better – with 44 percent responding that relations are getting worse and 37 percent saying they’re staying about the same.
Most respondents – 64 percent of whites and 57 percent of blacks – thought the unrest in Baltimore following Gray’s death was not justified, the poll said.
Six in 10 respondents had a lot or some confidence that the investigation into Gray’s death would be conducted fairly, but the figure was split along racial lines, the poll said. A total of 64 percent of whites say they have at least some confidence in a fair investigation, but 52 percent of blacks have little or no such confidence, the poll said.
But black respondents expressed more confidence in the Gray investigation – at 46 percent – than they did into the investigation into the death of Michael Brown in police custody in Ferguson, Missouri last year.
In terms of views of police officers in their community, three in four respondents said the presence of officers makes them feel safe. But the figure is again split down racial lines – with eight in 10 white respondents saying police officers mostly make them feel safe, compared with 51 percent for black respondents.
Younger Americans were more likely than older Americans to report that police officers make them anxious, the poll said.
A sizable majority of all respondents agreed that on-duty officers should wear body cameras – amounting to 93 percent of both black and white respondents.
The poll was conducted between Thursday, April 30 and Sunday, May 3 among a random sample of 1,027 adults.
The margin of error is plus or minus three points, but is different for subgroups. For the sample of African-Americans, the margin of error is nine points; for whites four points.

 

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2 decades? Try 5!

 

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[h=2]Ca$h: China Paid Bill Clinton Lucrative Speaking Fee as Sec. State Hillary Made ‘Asia Pivot’[/h] Former President Bill Clinton bagged a $200,000 speaking fee on October 21, 2011, paid for by Chinese government entities just ten days after then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton heralded a “pivot to Asia” in U.S. policy. The stunning revelation is just one of many in the new book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.

 

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[h=1]Obama Ignores Slain White Police Officer While Honoring Gray and Brown[/h] 72768
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[h=2]Barack Obama makes a habit of castigating police for their misbehavior, and by his actions, it could easily be assumed that he is disinterested in engendering any sympathy for police, even those killed in the line of duty, while he fans the flames of anti-police rage by honoring those killed by police.[/h] As Instapundit points out in comparing Obama’s actions vis-à-vis police, Obama honored Freddie Gray — who, according to CNN, had over 20 criminal cases filed against him before his death in police custody — by sending Cabinet Secretary Broderick Johnson, chair of the Obama administration’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force; Heather Foster, an adviser in the White House Office of Public Engagement; and Elias Alcantara from the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs to his funeral.
The Washington Post reported Obama sent three government officials to Michael Brown’s funeral: Johnson and two officials who worked in the White House Office of Public Engagement, Marlon Marshall and Heather Foster. Brown robbed a convenience store before his fatal encounter with Officer Darren Wilson.
Both Gray and Brown were black.
Yet at the funeral on Friday for Officer Brian Moore, 25, a white NYPD officer who was cold-bloodedly murdered by a black man, Obama sent no one, according to New York 1, despite the fact that tens of thousands of uniformed officers stood in formation outside the church and hundreds of others attended the funeral inside.
The NYPD reported that Moore and another officer, Erik Jansen, 30, were sitting in an unmarked police vehicle in Queens last Saturday when they saw Demetrius Blackwell adjusting something in his waistband. Moore pulled up behind Blackwell, who allegedly pulled a gun from his waistband and opened fire on both officers.
Deputy Inspector Mike Coyle of the NYPD said of Moore, “He was every commanding officer’s dream. If I had an army of Brian Moores, there’d be no crime in the city. He could walk into a room, and his smile would turn your day around if you were having a bad day. A real crime fighter, a true believer, a heart of gold.” Moore had made close to 160 arrests in his brief career and received two exceptional police service medals. On his off-days on Mondays, he always visited his mother.